Valuing coral reefs: A travel cost analysis of the Great Barrier Reef

Ambio

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 353-357

  Carr, Liam ^a   Mendelsohn, Robert ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT BARRIER REEF;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0042286462     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.5.353     Document Type: Article

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